He brought with him the full trump derangement syndrome, of course, because it follows him wherever he goes. The current “stone cold loser” mayor of london seems to have been one of the principal deranged.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and the current leader of the labour party, jeremy corbyn, seems to have been helping him. No doubt the BBC were hurling brickbats at him as well, but I wasn’t watching.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

And it’s why I think donald trump is going to be re-elected president in 2020 by millions of americans who are proud of america. I think that if (or rather, when) the democrat-controlled house of representatives starts impeachment proceedings against him for no good reason at all, they’re just going to be telling america that they just can’t stand this most american of US presidents, and that they can’t stand america.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory I think that the only result will be that in 2020 americans will hand donald trump an even bigger victory than they did last time. And I think the US democratic party could end up being destroyed.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and it already seems to be destroying itself. And it’s destroying itself by becoming the anti-american party.

This is a religion. It’s a religion in which it’s a sin to succumb to the temptation of doing something we enjoy doing.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory it’s a killjoy religion. Antismoking and anti-sugar are two components of a miserabilist anti-religion in which there is no god, but only a satan.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory there’s nothing that these people are in favour of, only things that they’re against. Smoking. Alcohol. Sugar. Salt. Fat. The list is endless.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

These days I spend much of my time constructing computer simulation models of ice ages. It’s not possible to do the same with tobacco smoke in lungs.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and that’s because there’s a big difference between tobacco smoke alarmism and carbon dioxide alarmism. And the difference is that global warming alarmism has a rational and scientific foundation, and the war on tobacco does not.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

There is no science of tobacco smoke that explains how it causes lung cancer. But there is a science of carbon dioxide that explains how it causes global warming.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and this explanation is that carbon dioxide absorbs long wave radiation from the surface of the earth, and the more of it that there is in the atmosphere, the more it acts to warm the earth’s atmosphere.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

But there is no corresponding explanation for exactly how tobacco smoke causes lung cancer. It explains nothing to be told that tobacco smoke contains “carcinogens”, because a carcinogen is simply another name for something that causes cancer.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and these “carcinogens” are everywhere, and not just in tobacco smoke. So why doesn’t everyone get cancer? And why don’t all smokers die of lung cancer?Social learning theory and social cognitive theory if the true causes of cancer were known, there’d be a cure for cancer. And since there are no cures, its causes must remain unknown.

Not all sciences advance with equal speed.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and the science of physics is far more advanced than the science of medicine. And in part this must be because the animate living things that are studied in medicine are much more complex than the inanimate objects that are studied in physics, and therefore much harder to understand.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory so we understand a lot about carbon dioxide, and little about cancer.

And wherever there is little understanding there is instead magical thinking.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory it’s not understood how tobacco smoke (or anything else) causes cancer, but it is believed that in some magic way it does so. Tobacco smoke has the magical property of causing cancer.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory in fact, it even has the magical property of causing all diseases. And it also possesses these properties even in homeopathic concentrations.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory in fact tobacco smoke has many magical properties. It can magically go through walls. It can magically climb multiple floors of buildings. It can magically linger for centuries on surfaces.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and so on.

And if the magical properties of tobacco smoke are only enhanced by dilution, then it follows that the most dangerous air to breathe is fresh air, in which there will always be some minuscule trace of tobacco smoke.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and conversely, the safest air to breathe must be that which is found in the smokiest of smoky bars. And so the healthiest places in the world will be those in which smoky bars abound.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and smoking bans must be extremely deleterious to health. For “smoke-free” air is a fiction. For all air, even the freshest of fresh air, contains carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide is one of the invisible constituents of tobacco smoke.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

And what do we know about carbon dioxide? We know that it absorbs long wave radiation emitted from warm surfaces. And that suggests an explanation for lung cancer that mirrors and reproduces the explanation of global warming: in the warm interior of their lungs, from the surface of which long wave radiation is continually being emitted, the carbon dioxide (which is present in higher concentrations in the lungs of smokers) is being heated, and causes internal lung heating – pulmonary warming -, and it is this warming, which is often concentrated in localised “hot spots” in the lungs, which causes cancerous tumours to appear.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and it causes these fast-reproducing cancers because heat stimulates activity, stimulates growth, and stimulates reproduction. After all, if increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere encourages plant growth in the atmosphere, increasing carbon dioxide in lungs must encourage tumour growth inside them as well.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

And here we have married climate science with medicine. It’s a magical wedding that (at last) provides a rational, scientific explanation for lung cancer.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory the same catastrophic global warming that is happening in the atmosphere is happening in the lungs of smokers, as catastrophic pulmonary warming.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and it is also anthropogenic pulmonary warming, because smokers cause the warming by smoking carbon dioxide-emitting cigarettes. Carbon dioxide is causing not only anthropogenic global warming (AGW) but also a global epidemic of lung cancer through anthropogenic pulmonary warming (APW).Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and because atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are rising, not only smokers are seeing increased lung cancer prevalence (because it isn’t actually smoking that causes lung cancer, but instead carbon dioxide).Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

Did WW1 and WW2 ever end? I’m not sure that they did. After all, shortly after the end of WW2, the cold war started. And the war on smoking and tobacco started at almost exactly the same time.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory it’s almost as if the soldiers who fought in those wars laid down their weapons, took off their uniforms, and started fighting new “cold” wars which were only slight variants of the hot wars they’d just been fighting.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory the wars ended in the sense that people stopped shooting at each other, but the convictions and beliefs that underlay those wars remained, and found expression elsewhere.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

And today the war on donald trump has arrived in britain. And this is a bizarre new american civil war which sees the USA almost as equally divided as it was during its hot civil war some 150 years ago.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory what is it that some americans can’t stand about donald trump? That he’s from the wrong side of town, and he wants to “make america great again.” and the last thing that his enemies want is to make america great again.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory they’re doing their level best to diminish and destroy america.

And, since all these small wars bleed into each other, the war on smoking and tobacco also happens to be part of the war on america.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory as I’ve often remarked, antismoking is anti-american. It’s anti-american because tobacco was america’s first gift to the world, and the original source of its great wealth.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory if you can’t stand tobacco, you can’t stand america, and vice versa.

And post-war european history is also a cold continuation of WW1 and WW2.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory the growth and expansion of the european union has been another bloodless cold war which has seen one country after another getting consumed by this new monster.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory unlike in WW1 and WW2, britain was successfully invaded by the EU in 1975 or so, and is now trying to escape (which is why donald trump is in britain, to try to help it escape).Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

For example, trump’s pledge to build A wall on the US southern border with mexico is part of a cold war against illegal immigration, which is seeing armies of migrants entering the USA from mexico.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory but the proposed, partly-built wall on the mexican border is over 2000 km long. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just invade mexico, and establish a new southern US border in guatemala or panama?Social learning theory and social cognitive theory then the southern US border would only be about 250 km long, and far more easily defensible. After all, the US states of texas and new mexico and arizona were once part of mexico.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

I’m not a progressive. And I don’t think I’ve ever been a progressive. I’ve never had any plans to improve the world. I think that before you can improve anything, you first have to understand it.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and if you are to understand anything, you have to study it very closely and carefully. Because if you don’t understand it, chances are that the changes you make to it won’t improve it, but just make it worse.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

It’s not that I don’t think that there is such a thing as progress. I think there is tremendous progress being made. But my idea of progress is one of increasing idleness.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and I think that the industrial revolution in which we got steam trains and steam ships and motor cars and airplanes and spaceships has seen an increase in social idleness all over the world.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory we started to get machines to do some of our work for us. It’s one of the reasons why there are so many games like football and golf being played everywhere.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and also so much music is being played. For to play games and music you need the idle time in which to play them.

But pretty much all this very real progress has been generated by inventors and scientists and engineers.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory it’s been the work of people who studied the world around them very carefully, and learned from it, and used their knowledge to invent and perfect and mass-produce countless useful (i.E.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory idleness-increasing) tools, like cars and planes and computers.

And most of these people weren’t progressives. They didn’t have plans to change the world.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory they just wanted to build a slightly better motor car, or a slightly faster airplane, or a slightly better screwdriver or hammer. They made small incremental improvements.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and it was all these tiny improvements that added up to make for quite tremendous progress. And if the changes they made weren’t improvements, they dispensed with them, and tried something else.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

Smoking bans could have been been introduced incrementally. There were always places where people didn’t smoke. For example: churches. It was simply not done to smoke in church.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and the same could have happened gradually and incrementally with all sorts of other places, by common consent. Maybe smokers would have gradually been constrained to smoking rooms.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory but there would always have been a place for them. Just like there are some areas where people can play football or play music.

But instead, the progressives introduced sweeping smoking bans everywhere, overnight, by law.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory one day you could smoke inside a pub, and the next day you couldn’t. In britain on 30 june 2007 you could smoke in pubs. Next day, 1 july 2007, you couldn’t.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory there was nothing gradual or incremental about it. Nor was there any attempt to assess whether it had been a success, whether people’s lives had improved as a result of it.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory I’ve never seen any questionnaire asking people whether their lives had improved (except the one that I helped to organise). It was deemed to be a success because there wasn’t an immediate revolt.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory people obeyed the law. On 30 june 2007 they smoked in pubs, and the next day, 1 july 2007, they stopped smoking in pubs, everywhere, all over britain.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory

The progressives in tobacco control had decided among themselves that it would be progress if the world could be made “smoke-free”. And there was no negotiation with anyone about it.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory the progressives knew better than they did. And that’s why the progressives never were going to ask people whether the smoking bans they had imposed on them had improved their lives.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory they didn’t want to know. They didn’t want any feedback.

Real progress is something that always happens slowly and incrementally and hesitantly.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory because real progress requires continually checking to see whether the latest tiny incremental change makes the engine more powerful, or the computer work faster.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory because not all changes make things work better. But progressives are always in a hurry. They want to improve things immediately, right now.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory they’re impatient. They can’t wait. And so whatever they do, it always makes things worse. Because it’s always an ill-considered rush job.

So the smoking bans that were suddenly imposed everywhere at more or less the same time will gradually be slowly and incrementally ignored and eroded and dismantled one by one.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory and this will happen because they weren’t real progress, but only had the appearance of progress, and they were dreamt up by progressives who would arrogantly impose their idea of progress on everyone else.Social learning theory and social cognitive theory